It is a classic problem. You want data for use in your program but it is on a webpage. Some websites have an API, of course, but usually, you are on your own. You can ...

A major investment by prominent VCs in a Web-based “data extraction” firm shows there may truly be just one way to get at some of the world’s most critical data ...

Since their inception, websites are used to share information. Whether it is a Wikipedia article, YouTube channel, Instagram account, or a Twitter handle. They all ...

Recently, AI researcher Simon Willison wanted to add up his charges from using a cloud service, but the payment values and dates he needed were scattered among a dozen separate emails. Inputting them ...

Founding director of The Regtech Association and Verifier CEO, Lisa Schutz, has urged for the Australian government to follow in the footsteps of the European Union (EU) and cease screen scraping. "I ...

I’m not a very technical person. Once, sick of counting up comments in a forum manually since the software didn’t have that feature, I was able to throw together some screen-scraping Python scripts ...

Screen scraping works by duplicating the data of another website. In payments, clients provide their credentials to the third-party provider (TPP) that enables the latter to access their bank account ...